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If you weren't personally famous but had done something really famous, how often would you tell people about it?
I met the guy who played that super famous saxophone part in Baker Street last night. He brought up about 15 seconds into the conversation, wasn't at all embarrassed about doing so.
He's probably quite bitter about it I guess, coming up with the signature part of a hit record and getting zero royalties. Just watched the video and he barely features. During his big moments there's just shots of the drummer's face in close up and cut aways of people walking down the street :D Poor bastard
I wonder if a similar thing happened with Careless Whisper
They should start a charity for these underappreciated saxpersons (and their saxsons and saxdaughters)
ah no wickedpedia says that GM did that one himself.
Raphael Ravenscroft can go fuck himself
dude don't use his name what if googles himself
my session career will go out the window
ah man
the edit post button isn't working!
my dad won an auction to win a silver disc of Ravenscroft
cause he was on some Robert Plant album
the guy that wrote
the bass line in walk on the wild side had pretty much the same treatment
Did he write the part or just play it?
Also YOU MET BOB HOLNEDSS?S?
he came up with it yeah but doesn't get a songwriting credit
what a mug
Really?
According to Wikipedia (cited evidence) that's bollocks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_(song)#Arrangement
Rafferty claimed he wrote the hook with the original intention that it be sung. Ravenscroft said differently, saying he was presented with a song that contained "several gaps". "In fact, most of what I played was an old blues riff," stated Ravenscroft. "If you're asking me: 'Did Gerry hand me a piece of music to play?' then no, he didn't."[9] However, the 2011 reissue of City To City included the demo of Baker Street which included the saxophone part played on electric guitar by Rafferty. The exact sax line, however, was originally played by saxophonist Steve Marcus for a song called "Half A Heart", credited to vibraphonist Gary Burton,[10] that appeared on Marcus' 1968 album Tomorrow Never Knows.
He was just trying to get you into bed, pal
Doubt he's ever even seen a saxophone.
he should've sued
There's precedent because of Spandau Ballet.
This isn't a joke.
maybe he did I dunno
we didn't discuss it in detail I didn't want to let him go on about it so I just started talking about something else. I just happen to remember a bit of the backstory from a R4 documentary I heard a million years ago.
Unless it was relevant to conversation
or was something someone asked about or something like that Then surely you'd leave it?
Maybe in this circumstance it's a bit different because he's not made anything out of it while someone else has. Especially as pretty much the rest of that song is turgid, I can understand being a bit bitter.
If it was like 'I invented post-its' then I'd probably be more chill about it, IDK.
well it was relevant - I asked him what kind of stuff he plays
but he could have just said "rock and pop" or something idk.
I'd say that's a nice lead in though
'Rock and pop session work'
if your next question isnt 'oh anything I might recognise?' then you're a monster. Let people have their pride.
people I know who've had the 15 minutes but never bring it up: the best people.
people I know who've had their 15 minutes but always bring it up: the worst people.
I'd probably mention it all the time.
^this to the whole post
it makes you like someone more,
when you've known them for ages, and then you find out something amazing about them.
I go on about things I've done all the time
and I've done fuck all. If I'd played the penny whistle on You Can Call Me Al or something I'd be totally insufferable.
a friend of mine always brings up who he "knows".
that gets really old after a while.
Yeah, I've considered blocking cocodalol on Facebook too
The bloke who played boring George in Men Behaving Badly
drinks down the pub in Greenwich. And he's now a very much lauded Shakespearian actor. So he always tried to avoid the penny dropping about his past. It's great.
"Haven't I seen you in something?"
"...Hamlet. Or maybe-
"YOU'RE THE RUBBISH TANK TOP GUY WHO WORKS WITH GARY!!"
:D
superb this
I'd have mentioned hosting blockbusters personally
tbh
Saxophonists on 80s hits actually got given new addresses and identities during one of the backlashes in the late 90s.
The thing that I've done that isn't even remotely worthy of fame,
I'd estimate I probably bring it up within 15-20 seconds of meeting someone new.
don't put yourself down dots this is some sterling work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWoJcIcTs88
I like to think I'd be humble and noble
But given the frequency with which I already repeat the mundane shit that happens to be me, I know I'd be fucking insufferable, like Hannah Horvarth esque
but your tales are AWESOME
I might do a thread for people to tell all of their dinner party/ war stories as I fancy a bit of a cheering up this afternoon.
I probably wouldn't tell anyone for a while
and experiment on what this does to my state of mind. I think I'd have some kind of weird, almost orgasmic, goose-pimpled euphoria in being responsible for something fame-worthily remarkable and not being known for it.
imagine you had done something famous though, and no one ever brought it up. you'd be a bit gutted.
I'm very good at socially engineering my way around things in moments of desperation.
leave the boards
I'd get some t-shirts printed up
I've never told anyone that I used to be the MilkyBar Kid.
'The milkybar kid is strong and tough'
'I know just the guy'
I'd pretty much constantly chase people down the street
shouting it at them
I wouldn't be surprised if swathes of DiS users were celebrities in real life tbh.
Almost certain Owen Jones uses this.
*are
I have reason to believe Stephen Fry uses DiS as well.
Who's that guy?
Columnist of The Independent, author of 'Chavs' and an outspoken socialist.
You'd probably like him.
Sounds like a solid, respectable and handsome chap.
Oh yes, very handsome.
Enough to make a heterosexual male consider re-evaluating the nature of his sexuality.
Awww
You fancy EMO <3
sweet :D
*blushes*
*He's handsome in a non-irksome, deserving kind of way.
oh god yeah
And I do it all the time. Probably more IRL than on here. on here I make veiled references to things and only people who post on here but know me IRl have a clue what I'm on about.
I am maybe about to become famous though :DDD
I am having the shittest WEEK ever but I have had some good news about a callback for a film part I auditoined for in february. The down(up?)side is that I might have to do a romance scene with somebody who i know a bit (HE IS MEGA FAMOUS but not my type). I feel a bit shy about that.
veiled! :D
my acting mentor is the homophoboic dad
of the gay copper in river city.
Who,
Bizarrely, has just emailed me out of the blue (weve not spoken in six months) about a role!
This week is certainly turning out to be a roller coaster.
I wish I were the man that keeps that stuff to himself and saves it for later
but I'm not. I'm a big show-off. I name-drop and its a really shit habit.
Right I'm off now to visit my friend
Specifically my friend who became famous for proposing by having people sing Lovely Day on a tube train, that went viral.
SEE! I'm a total dick.
I expect he tells everyone about it too.
I don't know. I'll ask.
MENTAL!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz2eTHh8qOg
no it's not
so long as you have some decent qualities to back it up and you're not JUST That Guy.
I've mastered the whole nice, humble, self-aware thing
so I pull it off. Still would like to do it less though.
my foot was in Brookside once
in a scene with Sinbad at Chester Zoo but you dont hear me bragging about it
I was once in the background of a news report
and gave a bit of a silly wave.
(one of my mates saw it but I didn't get a chance to enjoy the recognition as it transpired the news report was about Milly Dowler. Dick)